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Author Rayner, Cynthia Schweer, author

Title Fundación Escuela Nueva : pass or fail - the ups and downs of public sector innovation / Cynthia Schweer Rayner, Camilla Thorogood, François Bonnici
Published London : Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town, 2017

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Series SAGE Knowledge. Cases
SAGE Knowledge. Cases
Summary FEN tells the riveting story of Vicky Colbert, a public servant turned social entrepreneur, who, over the course of four decades, transformed rural schools in Colombia through developing and scaling an innovative education model called Escuela Nueva. The Escuela Nueva model is a child-centred pedagogical model, developed initially for multigrade classrooms in rural Colombia and now applied to primary schools around the world. Through Colbert's work in the 1970s-80s, the Escuela Nueva model was implemented in over 20,000 rural government schools in Colombia. However, a push for decentralisation in the country in the late 1980s and early 1990s resulted in a decline in the use of the model. As a result, Colbert and her colleagues established a non-governmental organisation, Fundación Escuela Nueva (FEN), to support and sustain the model. Today, the model has influenced the education systems of more than 20 countries in Latin America and worldwide
Notes Originally Published InRayner, C. S., Thorogood, C., & Bonnici, F. (2017). Fundación Escuela Nueva: Pass or fail -- the ups and downs of public sector innovation. GSB: 2017-15. Cape Town, South Africa: Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town
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Subject Colbert, Vicky
School improvement programs -- Colombia
Combination of grades -- Colombia
Public administration -- Colombia
Combination of grades
Public administration
School improvement programs
Colombia
Genre/Form Case studies.
Études de cas.
Form Electronic book
Author Thorogood, Camilla, author
Bonnici, François, author
ISBN 9781526465368
1526465361